in moscow he came as a transit passenger and remains in the transit zone of the airport russia's president puts the world out of suspense revealing the n.s.a. whistleblower is still in moscow and that his arrival surprised the authorities here as much as anyone. that's after washington accuse moscow of hiding snowden and demanded his extradition despite the fact he hasn't even officially crossed the country's border. and presidential palace is rocked by blasts and gunfire taliban fighters attack just a week after the u.s. handed over security to afghanistan's government and.

international news from our studio center here in moscow this is twenty four hours a day. president putin has revealed n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden is still in transit at a moscow airport that means he's never officially crossed russia's borders since arriving on sunday it follows a wild goose chase by the media which ended up in a plane load of journalists flying all the way to cuba on a flight snowden never even boarded well let's get the latest from say from the airport where he was supposed to leave. port here in moscow to bank what do we know about snowden where he years and what he's future plans are. well bill i can tell you. the president. out of our misery by

confirming that indeed edward snowden a did a transit at this very airport and could possibly still be in there he has not a touch of russian soil in fact if you if you got to get out of the airport you would need to have a visa and he has a real iterated that fact that he has not stepped out of that airport is not on russian soil contrary to what many have said the president also went on to compare the whole of situation all the trust me if you can between snowden the media intelligence agencies and here is why in fact this is what he had to say listen to this. snowden's case is similar to that of julian a song which both called themselves defenders of human rights and fought for the freedom of information you have to ask yourself do such people need to be hunted down and put in prison i personally would like to avoid cases like this it's like sharing a pig lots of shrieking but little. now

there's been strong the rhetoric coming from of the u.s. government as saying and accusing and demanding that russia is a hiding snowden of course early on we heard from of the foreign minister. of our russia saying that sort of a lavrov saying that indeed moscow had nothing to do with snow then they had not been in contact with him they know they don't know where his whereabouts are of course us the president also went on to say that the deal was a nice you understand that these are the situation that we're in right now as long as russia has done what it said it has done it has not helped snowden snowden is not of this sort there's not much more that russia can do for the u.s. he also went on to speak about the two whistleblowers who have made headlines in the last few years that there would be julian as much as well as a snowden saying that they he sees them as human rights activists as well as of those wanting to help with freedom of speech by publicizing the some of the documents that they've publicized in the beach in the public arena so the word both

of us noted right now you see in here now well according to the president he is whether we supported him as well is still quite we're still not sure we're still camping out here trying to get that sneak peek and bring it back out to our audience as well as you in the studio back to you bill. moved to bring it live outside moscow airport well the fact that snowden managed to trick a whole bunch of journalists into getting on a plane to have done it without him on it has got a lot of people wondering just how has he managed to do that and how is he also managed to escape the clutches of the u.s. authorities well we know exactly where he is at the moment but that still hasn't stopped people coming up with their own theories about what he's up to where he's going what his next steps will be and how he's going to do this so far the new york times for one has published an article alleging that it was all a show put on by russia's security forces the k.g.b. start operation was intended to. snowden's tracks plus there's the sheer comedy

value of sending dozens of foreign journalists to the caribbean on a flight that doesn't serve alcohol and twitter is also joining in the speculation of the moment here are just some of the tweets we've managed to get for you so far what snowden never existed at all so says one tweet that would certainly explain why he's nowhere to be found or he may indeed be off to cuba but not exactly on board an aeroflot flight but headed to a certain notorious on the caribbean island and some of the theories are more sinister suggesting he's already met his end where no one will ever find him and also bestselling american author and activist nomi wolf she lays out why she thinks that snowden might actually be a u.s. government double agent his leaks an escape plan have been far too neat she says and his disappearing act to spectacular besides she thinks that snowden's girlfriend is just a bit too sexy for it not to be an attention grabbing hoax although she believes

illustrates how u.s. intelligence is behind his every move a lot of mixed opinions there washington's angry reaction to snowden's departure from hong kong is cause resentment in china the foreign ministry said accusations and criticism were baseless but is not is going to church can report america isn't happy with the explanations. the white house says hong kong officials had received washington's request to arrest no then and still made quote a deliberate choice to let him go so washington clearly takes it as a snub from china here's the president's press secretary we are just not buying that this was a technical decision by a hong kong immigration official this was a deliberate choice by the government to release a fugitive despite a valid arrest warrant and that decision unquestionably has a negative impact on the u.s. china relationship we were never there in response to the u.s. request to arrest noted in the government of hong kong issued a statement saying that the documents the u.s.

provided did not fully comply with the legal requirements on the hong kong law but also in that same statement the government of hong kong said they wanted more information from the u.s. government about the hacking of computer systems in hong kong by u.s. government agencies and that was one of edward snowden's revelations snowden gave china a great political counterargument to u.s. constant accusations against china now the u.s. can't accuse china of cyber attacks without being accused of hypocrisy so there is an interesting dynamic behind all this the u.s. one and china where the semi-autonomous government of hong kong to give them the man who had leaked u.s. secrets but one of those secrets is about activities of the u.s. government against china so it's possible that china's dilemma was to either think edward snowden or to arrest hong kong says they've done everything in accordance with their own laws now as far as russia edward snowden has been in transit in russia and russian authorities say they have no legal authority to arrest him but u.s. politicians and pundits on television use what seems like

a cold war rhetoric to present. the enemies that snowden is helping and the imagination of some german is running. wild as they joke about how edward snowden is being briefed by the russian president in one form of social also on one of the news channels that russia and china are going to use this to embarrass the u.s. one should argue it's known as revelation. that embarrass the u.s. not russia or china but that's exactly what's happening now u.s. policymakers are doing everything possible to divert attention away from snowden's revelations and certainly one of the one way of doing this is to present it as a cold war style cat and mouse chase that way you have us media now almost cheering for edward snowden's capture although just a little while ago some of the same journalists were great for for great for a greater public awareness of the fact that the u.s. government is spying on millions of people who have done nothing wrong and of course has no illusions as to what lengths the u.s. government will go to catch him edward snowden also said it's not the government

persecution that he fears most he said the greatest fear that i have about the outcome of these disclosures is that nothing will change from how it's developing it doesn't look like things will change for americans anytime soon but for the wall be occasions of his revelations could be significant for example the fact that the u.s. now can't accuse china of cyber attacks without being accused of hypocrisy. we spoke to daniel ellsberg using another prominent american whistleblower who exposed these so-called pentagon papers nine hundred seventy one which detailed washington's controversial decision making during the vietnam war and he believes very few people have matched snowden's case. i think he would be in much the same cell as bradley manning if not in the same cell or comical any could be under the national defense authorization act he could be in military detention but even if not he would be in a jail cell somewhere as incommunicado as bradley manning is for the last three

years so i think he was very wise to make as voters outside of this country and i think that we should be listening to what he has to say because what so far i've heard him say is very eloquently put in shows much better judgment than those of his colleagues who went along with it's clearly unconstitutional but they were all participating and i would say the charm carries calling him a traitor is just trusting and he's no more a traitor than i am and i am not all that words used above me by a president and a vice president both of whom by the way to lost their office for criminality nixon and had no i think he is in the tradition of nathan hale the first american to be convicted of tried in fact for giving secrets to americans he said i regret that i have but one life to give for my country because his country was

america and he was hanged by the british it was a spy for george washington i think that edward snowden has shown a willingness to give his life for this country and there's no american i believe more deserves to be honored at this moment. let's get some analysis on snowden's current situation for all new poll of who is an award winning writer and intelligence expert he joins me live from central moscow how has he managed to evade the attention or indeed being captured by the media added they've been captured by the u.s. authorities for so long bearing in mind he has invited paul sport. well you know well i would say that here outplayed journalists. very very easily he is a professional he is an analysis of a seer he's not somebody he's just working at the distant station somewhere in the world he is the one here who analyzes the things he is the top guy and think in the sounds i don't now i don't want to just to discuss his human qualities i would say

that here is a high class really high class professional if you revealed so many secrets and she hasn't been caught it means that he is really intelligent really clever why he was not noticed by the bunch of journalists who were with him on the flight or say in the transit zone well he outplayed them you know because he deceived them because he is again i would repeat it he is a very high class professional and maybe it sounds a bit funny in no way these. were all nailed the seer is in the habit i don't say in a bad habit or in a good habit of using. wigs and things like that maybe snowden was a guy who was under these guys he may know he's still in the transit exactly he's

now in that transit zone is this going to be a difficult problem for moscow. no i wouldn't say it's difficult for i've heard stories about people living not for a couple of days but for a couple of weeks in the transit zone it's up to them to decide which way to go and besides well i would stress one thing seems important to me well living or staying in the transit zone. is the bus of the situation he can go and fly anywhere he like anywhere he prefers it's up to him to decide maybe feel guilty nice icicles a place called iceland or maybe he would choose ecuador it's up to him to decide you say he's a very as a let me ask you you say he's a very clever man to evade capture so far would he have had some sort of help from russian security services the f.s.b. in any part of this while i can give him no comment of that but i doubt that very

much i doubt that very much well he can manage this situation himself that's that is my my my opinion my purely private opinion but i can i can judge by his previous deeds that he is the one who overcomes will but it really is difficult to use a gun because you say he's now in a position to go anywhere he likes is there not a child so that u.s. authorities could intercept him on route to wherever he wants to go you're a security expert is that possible. what i would say that it's possible you know it made me turn dangerous for other passengers it may turn dangerous for the crowds that surround him you know well now he is you know what one may and one man in the field and he is playing the game and is unpredictable it's a visual game and he's a kind of an i'm visible man he's the master of the situation but when he's playing

cards let's say. to play right ok but let's say if you had also managed to get out of moscow and goes to his final destination which let's say is quito ecuador how safe would he be from there on onesies there from u.s. authorities from secret services. while i would dare say it will never be safe you know what it's me eve to say about that'll be safe in the quarter or anywhere anywhere else in any of the city in any you know well in any in any country of the world he wouldn't be that safe but he is the one who would be the only girl and that'll be out in next to impossible to clean him up to the wall he is the one who been somebody to the world and he is the one. who helped to do it and he proved it all really really interesting to talk to journalists and intelligence expert an

award winning writer to make a large dog a pot of thank you for your thoughts live in central moscow. well whistleblowers heroes criminals or both should their motives speak welsh and auntie's or be martin and t.v. legend larry king exchanged some tricky questions in breaking the set the full program it's available right now on r.t. dot com but here's a quick preview for you now. that's a question mr snow. but that's taken away from the what was it no more for you but he had a motive did me know if his motive was out to wish to be flee. because he doesn't want to face the same fate as bradley manning he doesn't want to face before he wouldn't stand up for what he stood for no right yes see in other words we did want to say what i tried to do in asking questions was i do the best i can over my career and asked the best questions i could pose in the best answer and hopefully big audience make up their own mind how do you see this kind of attack on

journalism ever before or do you see that this is the worse it's been terms of crackdown of whistleblowers of the obama administration etc i think we're supposed to fire i never i never heard of a corrupt always right now. you know as well he's already charged the surgeons the eighth person in charge of the espionage act the world war one piece of legislation or even the law but isn't the government breaking the law i don't know so do you think that that are they now do you think obama's going along absolutely they want to teach absolutely so then you're not you're a journalist with an opinion. of course. if you've ever seen anything like that. and you can see that exchange in full online right now at all t don't come stay with us for analysis all of the recent taliban's raid on afghanistan's presidential palace that's coming your way along with other stories

after the break. we speak your language might be worn out of the. program some documentary some spanish matters to you. a little tonnage of angles

stories. that the spanish find out more visit i to alan. he continues here on r t taliban fighters of a tech security forces near the presidential palace in kabul i was before president cause i was to hold a news conference there it comes as the u.s. helps afghanistan pursue peace talks with the insurgent group which is refusing to renounce violence gentleness courtney body is in kabul for us. scene lasted just over an hour and while no civilian casualties have been reported in the afghan forces did manage to get the attack under control relatively quickly the fact that it did happen at the presidential palace they used id cards and vehicle id cards.

are what the nato and i saw forces use reportedly and the fact that they were even able to breach that gate what i saw from the outside of the gate it's more of a blast wall around the green zone area as they were giant holes in the concrete walls and in the entire gate was destroyed apparently one vehicle was able to get inside and then one was stopped at the gate and then that's when the attack began it would seem as especially considering this attack happened right when the peace talks are being negotiated with the taliban and the attack happened on the presidential palace it would not seem possible that the afghan side could continue forward with the peace talks when they're being attacked not even just on their own soil but right in there in their presidential palace. u.s.

efforts to bring the taliban to the negotiation table have led to more violence. look at who currently has the upper hand in afghanistan. the taliban appears to be seizing on these seismic changes happening in afghanistan seeking out power vacuums where ever they appear it's now crossing the divide between legitimate political force and violent insurgent group the taliban now has an office in qatar giving it a base for its political ambitions that may include a run for the presidency next year when hammad karzai steps down it's also been given a boost by america's readiness to open peace talks with an enemy it's been fighting for more than a decade and with the withdrawal of u.s. troops and the handover of security to afghan forces it has also opened up a window of opportunity taliban fighters have launched a wave of attacks across the country aiming to destabilize and undermine the weak authorities nineteen people have been killed since the handover of security their latest target today was at the very heart of the government it was at the

presidential palace in kabul daoud sultanzoy political analyst and former afghan m.p. told us it's the exhaustion of u.s. led forces that allows the taliban to launch assaults like this this was probably one of the most strategic penetration. to send a signal to the afghan government that while they're opening an office in qatar they are also continuing their military assault on very important targets i think. this is the result of. war for. foreign forces. gets closer you will see more aggressive behavior from the on that one so this is this is going to escalate not decline in my opinion so many are left wondering what the point was for america to fight for over a decade then negotiate with an enemy that seems as willing and able as ever to use violence and as likely as anyone to regain the presidency. now we've always got

more news online for the moment including a big bank. report on top financial institutions have pushed politicians into handing out billions of euros to avoid bank meltdown in two thousand and eight and there's no hint of it being paid back more on that including late tapes of private conversations between bank tycoons on dot com right now. plus one the past catches up germany opens an investigation into a nazi s.s. commander who's been living in the u.s. for more than sixty years after reportedly sneaking into the country by claiming he never fought in the second world war. now to some of the stories making headlines around the world brazil's president has

proposed a referendum on widespread political reform and pledged to spend twenty three billion dollars on public transport she's trying to placate those involved in massive protests across the country despite her efforts the free transit activist group is launched more demonstrations promising to continue until all their demands are met. french police have detained six people suspected of planning assassinations across the country they're believed to be part of a radical islamist terrorist cell according to authorities the group consisting of four french nationals and men from. may have also been involved in the bank robbery france is on high alert for terror attacks since its operation in mali against al qaeda linked militants. the lebanese army has seized a complex in the southern part of the country which is controlled by hardline sunni militants around sixteen soldiers have been killed in two days of clashes with the followers of a maverick cleric who also supports anti-government rebels in syria the fighting is

being. as a test of the weak government's ability to contain anger unleashed by the civil war in neighboring syria. funnily enough jailed kurdish militant leader is launching new peace efforts to end three decades of conflict in turkey the peace negotiations come amid massive protests against the country's prime minister the kurdish leadership wants anchorage to give more rights to the kurdish minority which makes up twenty percent of the country's population kurdistan workers party guerrillas a carny withdrawing from turkish territory with some reports saying almost half of them have already left. so that brings up to date for them just after the break we have a look at the financial news headlines with prime interest and i'll be back with a news team with more and often enough that.

anyone who lives in the us knows that the i.r.s. does not play around one honest or dishonest mistake could get you in a lot of trouble even a longtime friend of mine got his entire life savings destroyed due to some simple honest error you think that workers in an organization that could punish you for your financial failings would be very sharp with their own money but that's sadly not the case according to an audit report from the treasury inspector general for tax administration at the very least one thousand iris employees have abused the charge cards they were issued to cover their official travel expenses some of these people are very high on the ladder including an executive level official a criminal investigator and multiple ploys with security clearances much of the abuses related to employees writing checks for big purchases which later bounced due to accounts being empty yeah the people who could ruin your life for what

little financial folly seem to have no problem over do. drawing while they are living it up on taxpayer funded travel to keep things in perspective the i.r.s. is a huge organization so one thousand abusers is a minority but in the spirit of fairness i think these card abusers should be punished just as harshly as normal people who run afoul of the i.r.s. a fresh just my opinion. good afternoon and welcome to prime interests i'm perry and washington d c and here's the prime headline that we're tracking today. stanley fischer has a left the bank of israel he might be heading to the federal reserve but guess who

will be taking his place at the b.o.i. a j.p. morgan exaggerated that would be take up franco second term at the helm of the second after spending three with a too big to fail over involving door to trilateral commission member and holder of the rockefeller rockefeller and outage here at the university of chicago has some big shoes to fill but don't worry because as vice chairman of a i.g. he was able to secure a hundred eighty three billion dollars from the federal reserve and treasury and now he can simply just print that money himself. and we're sad to see another big coin flop but melbourne has had to hold conversion a bit coins into dollars because of the ongoing investigation by the department of homeland security it seems that there's a major player hayden on the cryptocurrency front however there has yet to been an allegation of fraud and speaking of fraud we'll be talking to convicted boat.

kooker as sam antara of crazy eddie fame in just a bit. to finally details of a secret a federal reserve meeting have been released seems your favor bank we're not naming names that met on may twenty second to avoid a stricter a capital requirements and speaking of the fed despite the latest hilson link markets are tapering themselves down down down like a ring of fire and here is what ben you are.